NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Buzz Aldrin, engineer and astronaut, and lunar module pilot on Apollo 11, part 4 of 4
- Series
- NOVA
- Episode
- To the Moon
- Raw Footage
- Interview with Buzz Aldrin, engineer and astronaut, and lunar module pilot on Apollo 11, part 4 of 4
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-s46h12wk93
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- Description
- Program Description
- This remarkably crafted program covers the full range of participants in the Apollo project, from the scientists and engineers who promoted bold ideas about the nature of the Moon and how to get there, to the young geologists who chose the landing sites and helped train the crews, to the astronauts who actually went - not once or twice, but six times, each to a more demanding and interesting location on the Moon's surface. "To The Moon" includes unprecedented footage, rare interviews, and presents a magnificent overview of the history of man and the Moon. To the Moon aired as NOVA episode 2610 in 1999.
- Raw Footage Description
- Buzz Aldrin, engineer and former NASA astronaut, is interviewed about the results of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Aldrin describes his visual impressions of the moon, and mentions the mission's effect on a scientific understanding of the moon, as well as the lessons learned in effective technologies in going to the moon (the Saturn V rocket was never used again), and the mission's effect on bringing about an end to the Cold War. The interview with Aldrin ends with a discussion of space tourism, a hotel on the moon, and reducing the costs of space travel. The next segment is an audio-only interview with Jim Lovell, Frank Borman, and Bill Anders about Apollo 8 and the potential of traveling to Mars. The final segment is an audio-only segment with Buzz Aldrin describing rendezvous and docking, and a description of "dead man's curve".
- Created Date
- 1998-00-00
- Asset type
- Raw Footage
- Genres
- Interview
- Topics
- History
- Technology
- Science
- Subjects
- American History; Gemini; apollo; moon; Space; astronaut
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:22:38
- Credits
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Interviewee: Borman, Frank, 1928-
Interviewee: Anders, William, 1933-
Interviewee: Lovell, James, 1928-
Interviewee: Aldrin, Buzz, 1930-
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 52281 (barcode)
Format: Digital Betacam
Generation: Original
Duration: 0:22:38
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Identifier: cpb-aacip-15-s46h12wk93.mp4 (mediainfo)
Format: video/mp4
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 00:22:38
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- Citations
- Chicago: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Buzz Aldrin, engineer and astronaut, and lunar module pilot on Apollo 11, part 4 of 4 ,” 1998-00-00, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed December 22, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-s46h12wk93.
- MLA: “NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Buzz Aldrin, engineer and astronaut, and lunar module pilot on Apollo 11, part 4 of 4 .” 1998-00-00. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. December 22, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-s46h12wk93>.
- APA: NOVA; To the Moon; Interview with Buzz Aldrin, engineer and astronaut, and lunar module pilot on Apollo 11, part 4 of 4 . Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-s46h12wk93